die off

英 [daɪ ɒf]

美 [daɪ ɔːf]

（一组生命体）一个接一个地死去直到死光

英英释义

verb

• become extinct
  1. Dinosaurs died out
  Synonym:die out

双语例句

• When insects can't get the right plants to eat and they die off, then the birds don't have enough bugs for their meals.
  当昆虫无法得到适合的可食植物时便会死去，这样一来鸟类便没有足够的食物。
• Perhaps it would be better to allow them to die off and fertilize the garden naturally.
  但留下它们是为你菜园施肥的最好方式。
• When birds began to die off, People began to criticize the use of chemical pesticides.
  当鸟类开始相继死去时，人们就开始对使用化学杀虫剂提出批评。
• Natural selection allowed those early tribes to either learn and grow or fail to learn and die off as a culture.
  物竞天择迫使那些代表一种文化的早期部落要么学会适应并发展起来，或者学不会适应而堕落灭亡。
• Pollution from sewage or farm waste can cause excess algae growth, starving the water of oxygen and causing fish and other species to die off.
  从下水道或者农场里出来的污染水引起藻类的过度生长，造成水里的氧气严重缺失，以至于鱼类和别的物种相继死去。
• By then, Japan's population will have shrunk by around 20 million people, an unprecedented die off for a nation neither at war or blighted by famine.
  到那时日本人口将缩减至2000万人，对于一个期间既没有经历战争也没有遭遇饥荒的国家来说，这种人口缩减是史无前例的。
• When in the laboratory bacteria outrun the substances on which they feed, they die off.
  无需在远远的实验室里等到细菌生长就可以得到测试结果。
• Initial findings indicate poultry die off in the vicinity of the case's home in the week prior to the onset of illness.
  初步结论表明在该病例发病前一周内，其住所附近有禽类死亡。
• Maybe some day we'll just die off.
  也许有一天我们就会死去。
• In like manner, because of factors like acidity of rain, weather shock in insects or even bacteria in the soil, even plants and animals familiar to an area may succumb, and die off.
  同样地，即使作物和动物处在与过去相似的环境里，但某些象酸雨、遭受病虫害或土壤里微生物的侵害等因素也会令他们无法招架或死亡。